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Gertrude Weil’s Fight for Suffrage: A Southern Lady and New Jewish Woman

UNC Friday Center

Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South   Gertrude Weil (1879-1971), leader of the state’s women’s suffrage campaign, embodied North Carolina’s liberal and traditional paradoxes. Rooted in the small-town South, she fought not just … Read more